{"id":42499,"url":"https://alion.io/job/zyphra-platform-engineer","title":"Platform Engineer","company":{"id":8989,"name":"Zyphra","domain":"zyphra.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/zyphra","size_band":"1-10","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Ashby","truth_index":{"grade":"D","score":48,"open_postings":16,"ghost_share":0.875,"stale_share":0,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":null,"computed_at":"2026-10-16T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"DevOps","role_family":"DevOps","seniority":null,"employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["San Francisco, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":124000,"max_usd":277000,"period":"year","method":"role_country_seniority_unknown","sample_n":3941},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Ansible","optional":false},{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"Docker","optional":false},{"name":"GCP","optional":false},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":false},{"name":"SLURM","optional":false},{"name":"Terraform","optional":false},{"name":"Chaos Engineering","optional":true},{"name":"Ray","optional":true},{"name":"SGLang","optional":true},{"name":"Triton","optional":true},{"name":"vLLM","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-03-17T03:54:27Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-03-17","last_verified_at":"2026-10-16T22:06:06Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":213,"trust":{"level":"ghost","repost_count":0,"flags":["stale","company_stale"],"days_open":213},"description":"Zyphra is an artificial intelligence company based in San Francisco, California.\nThe Role:\nAs a Platform Engineer, you’ll be responsible for designing and maintaining the systems that keep Zyphra’s infrastructure robust, observable, secure, and scalable. Your work will be essential to ensuring the reliability and reproducibility of ML workloads, the safety and control of deployments, and the long-term maintainability of our compute environments.\nYou’ll Work Across:\nBuilding and improving observability systems (monitoring, logging, alerting)\n\nManaging Infrastructure as a Service across the stack along with CI/CD in close partnership with engineering teams\n\nDesigning resilient build and deployment systems across research and production environments\n\nImplementing secure release processes with strong auditability and rollback support\n\nCollaborating closely with ML engineers, DevOps, and infra teams to improve system reliability and performance\n\nLeading incident response, root-cause analysis, and postmortems with a focus on learning and prevention\n\nThis role is ideal for someone who loves building systems that make other teams faster, safer, and more productive\n\nWhat We're Looking For / Requirements:\nExperience in high-performance compute environments, such as ML clusters or GPU farms as well as hyperscaler cloud environments (i.e. AWS, GCP, etc.)\n\nBackground in infrastructure as code (i.e., Terraform, Ansible, etc.)\n\nFamiliarity with containers (i.e., Docker, Apptainer) and their integration with scheduling systems (i.e., Kubernetes, Slurm)\n\nFamiliarity with software release engineering for ML/AI systems is a plus\n\nExperience managing run-books, DRP, change management, and general fault tolerance\n\nExperience with deployment strategies at scale\n\nExperience designing reliable environments for experimental workloads and reproducible runs\n\nKnowledge of compliance and audit standards in deployment and system security\n\nExperience with load testing, fault injection, and chaos engineering to harden systems under stress\n\nPassion for building tooling that makes infrastructure invisible and reliable for end users\n\nQualifications / Additional Skills:\nExperience with infrastructure as code (e.g., Ansible, Terraform)\n\nPrior work supporting ML/AI infrastructure, including GPU management and workload optimization\n\nExposure to backend development for ML model serving (i.e., vLLM, Ray, SGLang, Triton)\n\nWhy Work at Zyphra:\nOur research methodology is grounded in methodical, step-by-step approaches to ambitious goals. Both deep research and engineering excellence are equally valued\n\nWe strongly value new and crazy ideas and are very willing to bet big on new ideas\n\nWe move as quickly as we can; we aim to minimize the bar to impact as low as possible\n\nWe all enjoy what we do and love discussing AI\n\nBenefits and Perks:\nComprehensive medical, dental, vision, and FSA plans\n\nCompetitive compensation and 401(k) plan\n\nRelocation and immigration support on a case-by-case basis\n\nIn-office snacks and meals provided\n\nUnlimited PTO and company holidays\n\nIn-person team in San Francisco with a collaborative, high-energy environment","description_format":"text","description_chars":3151,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Unlimited PTO"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":true,"industries":["Foundation Models","AI Research Labs"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-03-17T03:54:27Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":3,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.093,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":213,"expected_fill_days":26,"reasons":["conf:1","stale_co","ghost","win:tail","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-10-16T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/zyphra-platform-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/zyphra-platform-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-16T23:36:05Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":5592,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-17T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":8989},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=8989"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fzyphra-platform-engineer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fzyphra-platform-engineer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fzyphra-platform-engineer"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/zyphra-platform-engineer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fzyphra-platform-engineer"}]}